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Greek creativity has an Apollonian rational mode and a Bacchic emotional mode, but Jiang says Virgil treats the Bacchic aspect as the worst emotion because it leads into madness.
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Greek creativity has an Apollonian rational mode and a Bacchic emotional mode, but Jiang says Virgil treats the Bacchic aspect as the worst emotion because it leads into madness.
Nixon's phrase that the heavens became part of man's world is used by Jiang as evidence for an inversion motif: heaven is brought down to earth.
The game-theory argument says America had strong incentives to guarantee Apollo success because a failed mission would break a country already strained by Vietnam, Soviet space superiority, and political assassinations.
The conflict between Apollo and the Furies is framed as a conflict between young gods and old gods, human justice and the laws of the universe.
"...there's actually two gods of creativity in the greek world there's apollo and there's dionysius bacchus okay apollo is the god of logical creativity..."
"...to be the most historic telephone call ever made from the White House. I just can't tell you how proud we all are of..."
"Okay? The heavens have become part of man's world, right? Remember how last class we talked about how they wanted to bring the heavens..."
"...let's use game theory. All right. So we know that NASA's Apollo program cost $26 billion between 1960 and 1973. That's almost $20 billion..."
"The first to orbit the Earth. The first to walk in space. The first to send a lunar module to the moon. So it..."
"so, according to game theory, America could not afford to take the risk of sending people to the moon. If they died, if it..."
"...So he's struggling emotionally about what to do. So he consults Apollo, who is basically the god of justice. And Apollo tells him, you..."
"...We will not let you go, okay? Orestes goes, talks to Apollo, and Apollo tries to intercede on behalf of Orestes. And the Furies..."
"...Troy, to house my Trojans in defeat. But not now. Grignion Apollo's Oracle says that I must seize on Italy's noble land. His listening..."
"...men were battling so. For this was the victory sign that Apollo prophesies at his shrine in Pitho when Agamemnon strode across the rocky..."
"...alive. Surely the muse has taught you, Zeus' daughter, or god Apollo himself. How true to life, all too true. You sing the Achaeans'..."
"...the plain. Oh, what to God, Father Zeus, Athena, and Lord Apollo. Not one of all these Trojans could flee his death. Not one...."
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's conspiracy lecture: Apollo, JFK, 9/11, Freemasonry, bureaucracy, and the number 33 become one model of spectacle, disclosure, guilt, and perception control.
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